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What are the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework?
Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability.
Define an AWS Region and explain its relationship to Availability Zones.
A Region is a geographic area containing multiple isolated Availability Zones. Each AZ is a separate data center with independent power, cooling, and networking to ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
What is the AWS shared responsibility model?
AWS is responsible for 'security of the cloud' (infrastructure, hardware, software); customers are responsible for 'security in the cloud' (data, access controls, encryption, application security).
Describe the three pricing models for EC2 instances.
On-Demand (pay per second), Reserved Instances (1-3 year commitment for up to 72% discount), and Spot Instances (up to 90% discount but can be interrupted).
What is Amazon S3 and what are its primary use cases?
Amazon S3 is a scalable object storage service. Primary uses: data backup/archival, static website hosting, data lakes, and application file storage. Objects are stored in buckets with unlimited scalability.
Explain the difference between Amazon RDS and DynamoDB in terms of database type and use case.
RDS is a relational (SQL) database managed service supporting complex queries and ACID transactions; ideal for structured data. DynamoDB is a NoSQL key-value database for high-speed, high-volume access to unstructured data without complex joins.
What is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role and when would you use it instead of an IAM user?
An IAM role is a set of permissions without long-term credentials; it uses temporary security tokens. Use roles for EC2 instances, Lambda, cross-account access, and federated users. Use IAM users for human principals with long-term credentials.
Identify the primary benefits of using AWS Lambda.
Serverless compute (no infrastructure management), automatic scaling, pay-per-invocation pricing, integrates with AWS services, supports multiple languages, and enables event-driven architectures.
What are the key differences between Amazon CloudFront and AWS Global Accelerator?
CloudFront is a CDN for distributing cached content globally via edge locations; optimizes for web content delivery. Global Accelerator improves application performance using Anycast IPs and edge locations; routes traffic optimally for any protocol/port.
Explain AWS Organizations and its relationship to consolidated billing and SCPs.
AWS Organizations manages multiple AWS accounts centrally. Consolidated billing combines charges for cost savings. Service Control Policies (SCPs) restrict permissions across member accounts to enforce security and compliance guardrails.
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